My funny friend

This summer, Simona will live in France to be a nanny for a very lucky little girl and to master another language! I had to say goodbye to my favorite Slovak on Thursday. Simona shared everything with me. We shared adventures and meals. We shared families and holidays. We shared laughter and tears. I will always be grateful to Simona for making me feel at home. Slovakia has definitely lost some of its luster since she left.

Tim, my new friend from London, came to visit this weekend. We spent Friday and Saturday in Bratislava. He enjoyed the traditional foods and the Slovak pubs. A group of us returned to the lake in Bratislava and enjoyed a floating picnic on a paddle boat. Yesterday, I showed Tim around my town. He came to Slovakia expecting to see gray everywhere; he was pleasantly surprised by the colorful Old Town in Bratislava and the SNP square in Banská Bystrica.